I understand that shorter legal writing is better legal writing. But if you edit my brief down to nothing and then tell me it no longer makes sense and my citations no longer apply, SCOTUS has ruled I have the right to throw myself out a window.

I know a lot of fans avoid confronting the racism inherent in Tolkien’s evil races and try to attach alternate meanings to that narrative, but it’s harder to ignore when the actual racists are like, “Hell yeah orcs = brown people.” You might not read orcs that way, but the racists sure do.

I can’t even read a live summary. I got up to “fixing” housing with lower interest rates and I just can’t. You can’t solve a supply problem of this scale by increasing demand. I don’t even want to know what he’s saying about immigration or foreign wars.

I know the context of the Rice Cooker Discourse, but you will tear my rice cooker from my cold dead hands. I just upgraded last year and the new one is so fast and easy. I am never, ever going back.

The Supreme Court:

Learning Resources v. Trump seems like as good a reminder as any that the Court’s principle bias is not left or right, it is corporate. Roberts can still see his way to sense when there’s a profit motive. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Everyone acts like it was always obvious that it was Mr. Jenkins in a mask, but you’d be more open to the possibility of the supernatural too if your best friend was a talking dog.

After we get done with this national humiliation ritual, we are totally getting into the frat, right?

Man, fuck this.

We are far enough along in the Dead Internet that it is likely that one or more of the people you are engaging with regularly On Here is already a bot. It would be nice to think you could tell who, but honestly, I think we are already way past the point where I could in casual interaction.

This article is the investing equivalent of yelling “catch” and tossing someone a knife.

It is so weird to read articles about different sports once you start to notice the age ranges. Some are like, “this is 45-year old Alexander’s 8th Olympic Games, an excellent mid career showing,” while others are like “figure skater Monica appears here at age 22, the oldest woman to ever compete.”

The Brady Bunch Movie is an interesting concept. 70s sitcom characters in 90s sitcom situations, lampooning their hopeless naïveté. The same setup but in to 2020s would be like giving them superpowers. Teens unconcerned with “looksmaxxing/mogging” or social media bullying? They’d be unstoppable.

I took Little Bit to the San Diego Safari Park this weekend. Neither of us had ever seen a platypus in person before, and apparently they have the only ones outside of Australia. It’s been nice to hear about an animal other than a hedgehog for a bit (even tho they are still her favorites).

Years ago I litigated a case involving an EMR system for small hospitals. It kept switching things like meds/notes between patients. We ended up settling out for the cost of replacement because there were no other damages - nurses didn’t trust the machine and kept their own parallel paper records.

The setting I most want for AI is the ability to turn off the incessant fluffing. No, I am NOT smart for asking that question, ChatGPT, and I do not appreciate you suggesting that I am diligent and insightful for engaging in this dumbassery.

Hocus Pocus (1993) follows a villainous comedic trio of witches who are inadvertently resurrected by a teenage boy in Salem, Massachusetts on Halloween night.

I would make an exception though for New Kids on the Block.

I’m supposed to do a toast for my 90-year old grandmother, and I do not trust my instincts. Because at that age, my first thought was, “may your bananas ripen in time.”

If you run a burger place in an airport, I get it, you are going to screw me on price. But charging for sauce packets? How very dare you? You go too far, sir!

I don’t think I’ve ever opened the app and NOT had a WSJ article in the top 10. Ditto the increasingly right leaning WaPo. I think maybe the FTC has a more specific definition of “right leaning” than I do. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Now the Super Bowl can be like Thanksgiving, but instead of a turkey we pardon an NFL player.

The most incredible part in all of this is that Trump still hasn’t faced a real crisis in this term that wasn’t of his own making. This isn’t people unhappy with circumstances like with Biden. People just really, really hate who he is and what he does.

To whom do I submit graph crimes for prosecution? My eyes are bleeding from trying to distinguish these five shades of teal. I have damages!

Out of nowhere HR just sent out an all-staff email reminding us about both the nepotism and no-dating-undergrads policies, and I just hope that those reminders do not share the same inciting event.

People get mad at bands like like Foreigner and Lynyrd Skynyrd that are still touring despite containing none of original members. I agree. I went to see the New York Philharmonic, and when I realized there was not even one person out of the original 1842 lineup, I booked it straight out of there.

Apparently the zombocom domain expired yesterday and was presumably bought out by some other jackass who launched this vibe-coded IMPOSTOR

The functionality of these smart watches as described in this article is literally just MeowMeowBeenz from that one episode of Community. apple.news/AuGac9WgVQti...

Does @gastronauts.bsky.social take audience submissions? Because “what’s the deal with airline food?” is literally right there, begging to be a theme.

Not sure where to rank this halftime show but Bad Bunny clearly top 5 wedding guest.

Great Britain’s figure skater choosing Charlie Chaplin’s speech denouncing fascism from The Great Dictator as her music was a hell of a choice. Major kudos to her for putting on that message.

Someone made a cultural reference to Avatar to me today. The movie, not the cartoon. I’m in shock. Are people allowed to do that?

Is it weird that even in middle age I still sometimes feel like a fraud as an adult? Like, to the best of my recollection the last Serious Adult thing my parents did for me was helping me negotiate down my mortgage rate when I was 25, but some days I still feel like I would be helpless on my own.

If you’ve ever wanted to see a thread arguing that it is morally right that capital must crush labor, but leftistly, boy do I have a thread that will give you whiplash.

I am done with collaborationist bullshit

Dorian Grey jokes never get old.

They should make a sequel to Clair Obscur set in Japan. All the adults disappear at age 33 because the Japanese don’t know how to depict anyone over that age in fiction.

I think Maya Rudolph was my favorite part of the Muppets special, although Sabrina Carpenter killed it - Kermit and Piggy being rivals for her affection was a fun twist on the old dynamic. This has seriously got to get a season order.

How old were you when you found out Groucho Marx’s mustache was painted on? I ask because my mother, allegedly a fan, was surprised to learn this from me just now. Same question, Charlie Chaplin.

Without saying anything about the relative positions they argue, it is interesting that at this moment the Federal Public Defenders office is more prestigious and well liked than the US atty’s office for the first time in living memory. And in some cases, may be better staffed…

Little Bit is obsessed with hedgehogs, so @macaronbaker.bsky.social decided to use her new 3D printer to print a hedgehog soap dispenser. Little Bit loves it so much she has declared it her new best friend.

Whole lot of people on here liking and reposting this without asking basic questions like who, what, when, where, and why. Let’s be less credulous than the Other Place, please.

If the court rules against birthright citizenship we need to agree to a norm of referring to it as Dred Scott 2 in all citations.

Let me introduce you all to this bottle of 2019 Late Disgorged Brut Rosé. It has the most delightful orange hue.

I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one. It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.

It is interesting how things have shifted on lawyer advice forums over the years. When I started, the biggest risk a young lawyer could face was an alcoholic partner, because they absolutely would make their mistakes your problem. Today, it is boomer lawyers with access to ChatGPT.

Given the type of social degeneracy we are facing, when this is all over I don’t think many of them will plead that they were “just following orders.” I think they’ll say, “It was just a prank. Can’t you take a joke, bro?”

Getting an impromptu dance recital from my 4-y/o at the end of a cooped up snow day is making it all feel worth it.

An under-acknowledged cultural problem: Christmas is close to the start of winter, but is treated culturally like the capstone or end of winter. There are relatively few winter songs/shows that are not also in some way Christmas songs which stop being relevant very early in the season.

I think “sidewalk execution” qualifies as “someone does something stupid.” youtu.be/BhKKC8I2mbg?...